Battletech's Jenner, House Kurita's Premiere Raider 

The Owens is named after “Garryowen” an old Irish quick-step that can be traced back to the early 1860s. From the TRO "Unlike many Kurita 'Mechs, whose names come from their appearance, the Owens takes its name from its primary mission: the traditional cavalry role of screening and reconnaissance. The name comes from a Terran drinking song titled Garry Owens, a tune traditionally associated with cavalry units. It is interesting to note that the Draconis Combine, whose culture derives from the Oriental societies of Earth, found inspiration for the name of its new light OmniMech in a Western ditty."

The Jenner. Cause those civilians aren't just going to kill themselves.

Ive liked the Jenner since I played it in Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries. Its basically a Super Wasp, being faster and with about double the firepower. Strip off the SRM-4 for more armor and youre good. That one has an official variant, the JR7-F. The Jenner has a couple flaws. Its armor is very light for 35tons, it only has 5 Jump Jets with a 7 walking speed, it overheats, and it has no Medium or Long Range weapons. The lack of long range is reasonable as those are very heavy for a light mech in 3025. Its actually odd how rare Light Mechs are in terms of firepower. No I dont mean big guns, but it would be easy to equip 3 Medium Lasers, no problem. Now the counter for the Jenner, The Wolfhound is actually pretty good. Its a lot more armored than the Jenner, and much faster than the Panther. Now upgrading that idea is pretty simple. A custom job Ive made is to combine it with the Panther using lower-weight Light PPCs to increase its firepower. If you can get clan-grade weapons then it becomes a fantastic combination of speed and firepower. =================== The Clans made the Jenner IIC which is unusual in that it focused on Short Range Missiles with no energy weapons. This is odd for a couple reasons. One thats wasteful in ammunition, and Two it uses an expensive Extralight Engine in what are supposed to be guard troops. Im surprised no Jenner IICs go for a "Fire Jenner" variant with clan ER Medium Lasers or Medium Pulse Lasers. Now there is something close, the Jenner IIC 5 with has 4 Improved Heavy Medium Lasers and a Streak SRM-4. That has a lot of firepower on paper, but overheats very quickly.

Ah yes, the light mech the Combine used as their main battleline mech along with the Panther for a time. Thanks for the video.

The Jenner F is one of those mechs you buy if you can for a scouting force. It’s low on tonnage, shockingly durable. Most importantly, you can’t turn it off from the typical Jenner means.

The Jenner is one of the few mechs I've found to be a pleasure to pilot or deploy as a unit. Sometimes you need to just get in the cockpit and do it yourself, but I've found even a lackluster pilot can make the Jenner work for them.

Great video on this mech. A bit of a goofy look but, that's a cool thing about it. I should field these more.

The Jenner and the Panther are a great team. But I feel that the DCMS was meant to be the “Black” hats in early additions, they got mook mechs. And we learned to make them dangerous.

7:30 the DCMS had a few, but thwy were almost entirely limited to the Grand Dragon

Some might say Comstar was super...JENNERous.

Funny enough is that both this and the Archer I've had for a while but never really got around to using almost ever. I don't know I guess I just like slow heavy Light Mechs. Like the Wolf hound, and Fire Fly, and more (not the Commando) I know technically they are supposed to be scouts and all that but boy do they fill a mid, to close rage fire support role nicely and for cheaper than some mechs 5-10 tons heavier than them. And that is everything when you got to do thing on a budget. And as pirates I can tell you straight speed maybe life, but luck decides everything at the end of the day. I've seen way too many Combine pilots from them fancy academics go head up with the local warlords, and gangs and both sides come out mauled. That's what the history books, and holo-vids will never tell you. And the few Lances of the things we got are more than testament to that.

So that’s where it got its name from 😂

My personal favorite light mech

The Jenner wrecked in MW2:Mercs. Literally run circles around most mechs. I would go for the Jenner or Crab early.

Jenners don't overheat they glow with honor.

It’s a shame that such an iconic (or notorious) battlemech got left in the dust while Kurita experimented with newer designs with shinier toys. But at least the newest Jenner variant is competitive with other IlClan light mech designs, whereas the newest Panther variants aren’t holding up so well.

I always take a Jenner. Little guy pulls so much weight

Eh, the infamous Aho Jenner.

Solid mech. LAW did a great job on it. But the design did always puzzle me... what is the grill? How is this design armor efficient? It has way more surface area to cover than lets say, a cicada.

So the Jenner was named after Bruce Jenner? The more you know...

The Jenner isn't an omni turner.